You missed it... The biosphere that existed in the glacier didn't return when the glacier was gone. The same is true for the surface mine site. That glacier site may be OK by human standards in the same way that ocean level rise would be OK to aquatic animals but not OK to humans who require dry land to live on.
Things are not always black and white. To say that there is little or no effect on climate by humans is just as absurd as claiming humans are totally responsible for climate change. I work in emergency management and can attest through personal experience that the amount and severity of natural disaster has increased over the past decade alone. Hurricanes have become more frequent and tornado activity has increased. Flooding and mudslides are occurring more often as well especially in built up areas where runoff from all the paving has nowhere to go. To see massive changes in a biosphere all one has to do is visit a surface mine operation. Although they attempt to restore the biosphere somewhat it never fully returns to its original state.
No, a presumption would be that he lied when he said those things. It is more likely he thought the Republicans in Congress would, you know, actually CARE if the country goes down the tubes. He is now actually betting that people will remember that he tried to get along and play nice. The problem is the American public has the attention span of a retarded gnat.
Since this, like a lot of stories here at/. has gone political, let me weigh in...
President Obama's biggest mistake was trying to rescue the Republicans when they were at an all time low thinking he needed "bipartisanship" to get things passed. He had 3/4ths of the power (lacking only the Supreme Court) and he treated the opposition like they were equal partners. Like my dad always said, leave it to the Democrats to snatch defeat out of the jaws of victory. Instead of using the Tea Party lunacy like a knife twisting it in the belly of the beast, they allowed the Republicans to set not only the tone of the argument but the agenda as if they were still in power.
Anyway, to try and bring this back around, this attorney is just about as batty as any Tea Party Patriot. I guess it is a sign of the times.
The way I am reading how it works is that without it on programs won't run in Win8. If that is the case, then you would have to turn it on every time you went into Windows and turn it off when you switched OS. Am I wrong on that?
What I do see this doing is killing dual boot options. It would be a PITA to have to go into BIOS every time I wanted to switch to the other OS. I also see it killing other virtualization environments for the same reason. I.E. You possibly could run a virtualized Linux in Windows but the reverse wouldn't be true. I think that is the real thing MS wants to destroy. The ability to virtualize their OS.
Well, enough of this tinfoil hat stuff. We will see what they come out and how much hot water they get into with antitrust first.
I am not following your logic here. What legitimate business does the DEA have in knowing who is spending large amounts of money?
It goes to the war on drugs. It started out as an anti-bootleg law and morphed into that. It has further morphed to the report goes to DHS as well because of terrorism funding. This is how they catch large money laundering operations.
No but to play devil's advocate here it is far more likely they would lob one at Israel. When that happens, because of treaties we have with them (lots of Jewish folk here to push it through), we would be at war with whoever did attack Israel. It's the same situation with North and South Korea.
Naming conventions aside, petition campaigns, especially form petition types have never worked in the past. They require the receiving party to actually give a shit about the petitions and set aside their own self interest and those of the ones funding them. Blackouts and demonstrations of the proposed nasty are far more effective. And it needs to be the big boys doing it first. That would be Google, Facebook, Twitter and Wikipedia. that is what stopped SOPA. Not some silly form sent to individual representatives. It prompted Joe Blow to actually call and write DIRECTLY to their reps expressing in their own words how they feel. That is way more effective than getting the same form over and over again. And even then, there will be politicians that won't set aside that self interest.
What makes this story news is that the FBI arrested him, not the fact that he is a corrupt Democratic politician, so there is no reason to mention his party affiliation.
Exactly. The point is both parties are an evil duopoly that are allowed to fester with decisions like Citizen's United. A politician these days spends many more hours raising funds than they spend doing their Constitutionally mandated job. I know many that have taken the attitude of "if I never heard of you you get my vote!" that is why here in West Virginia a convicted felon in a Texas prison garnered 48% of the Democratic vote. That and the fact that not one of our Democratic leaders in Congress or the Governor himself, also a Democrat, supports President Obama. But that has more to do with coal and the EPA than anything else.
Anyway, coming from a state that is controlled for the past 35 years by Democrats has lead to some of the most egregious criminal acts. Just the past election has one county where 125% of the population cast votes. Lots going to prison over that. Suffice it to say that both parties are rotten especially if they are incumbents.
If only Solyndra paid as much attention to their bottom line as they did their decor, they might still be around...
Ummm.... No. China was, and is, doing the same to the solar panel industry that it did to the steel industry. It is massively dumping solar panels on the country at highly reduced rates because they are subsidized by the Chinese government at a far greater rate than the US is subsidizing the industry here.
Make no mistake about it. There is nothing the US government can do about Chinese dumping or Chinese manipulation of their currency because China holds so much of our debt. Armageddon is coming soon when the Chinese economy falters and the Chinese government calls in those loans. This is another reason the US needs to do something drastic to reduce its debt that China holds. But as long as there remains manipulation by the Chinese government, we will never crawl out of that hole.
And when the shooter turns out to be the judge's brother that is OK with you? That is what this case is sounding like. When you have financial interests in the outcome and refuse to recuse yourself from the case, it leads to the appearance of corruptness which is something we can't have in the judicial system. There are strict judicial guidelines (at least in the US) mandating judicial behavior. If a judge can't follow them, they need to feel the full weight of the law.
When they say "the end of insurance" they really mean "our profit margins are going to shrink drastically"
You got it backwards there sport...Less accidents=less payouts=GREATER profit margins. Insurance has NEVER existed to pay out more than it takes in. That is why they raise your premiums with the first claim.
And I don't see them reducing the premiums unless they gather a mountain of evidence showing it really is safer. I doubt we will see that in our lifetimes.
However, if all cars were converted to driverless, then the increased efficiency may be such that you could have far fewer roads because a road could handle that many more cars without becoming congested...
Until they got hacked then it is mayhem with no way around it.
I'd go further than just software patents. Ban all method patents. That includes business methods, which is in just as bad a shape as software patents are.
Are they intent to meet strangers? Trying to make new friends? Just some casual contact to waste some time at the bar? Totally different reasons?
Or are they just not changing the defaults set by the social networking site? I know plenty of Luddites that don't understand or care about their privacy until it is too late.
See, I don't want to be limited in minutes for voice or text. Data I can do without (although I noticed that when I send say a picture to someone it uses the data connection to do it). I can't imagine anything more dire than running out of minutes right when I need the phone.
Also, I live in rural West Virginia where sunshine has to be pumped in and even then we don't know what to do with it. We have whole counties where cell phones don't work at all. Hell, in some counties radios don't work either. So far AT&T has been the most reliable here for me working in places where other carriers drop the ball.
The problem with that analysis is it doesn't take into account the hit to reputation. These companies only exist because of trust that the data is correct and secure. Loss of that trust means people will jump ship faster than rats leaving a sinking ship. I suspect the only reason Heartland survived was it is an industry that is "too big to fail" meaning there are very few processors out there for people to jump ship to that hasn't suffered the same problems or worse.
I recently had a heart attack and realized I needed a phone for emergencies.I went with the GoPhone which is AT&T. I pay $50.00 a month for unlimited voice, text and data but rarely use the data. Before the attack I didn't see the need for a cell phone much less a smart one. I still don't have a smart phone and probably won't get one but I will say my use of the cell has accelerated somewhat. The phone itself is a Nokia C3-00 which is more phone than I really need. I just don't see the use of having all that trash in a phone.
Come down off your high horse there for a moment and think about this. There are times when recordings of police action can put lives at risk. Think about the under cover cop busting a gang up. Record him doing his job and releasing that recording would put not only the cop at risk but anyone around him. His family, friends and coworkers would quickly become targets.
Look, I am not saying what these police did is right but I am also not going to condemn the whole force or the policy they are following in limited cases. The fault lies in their training and supervision. A lack of either will result in instances like this.
Lastly, it was the city attorney and police chief that decided this case had merit enough to pursue it all the way to the appeals court. That was a foolish mistake that the Mayor and city government is ultimately responsible for. Want to punish someone, punish them.
I always find it amazing that electronic gadgets are a "distraction" yet non-electronic ones are not. You don't see legislation to outlaw paper maps, coffee cups, makeup, food, etc from vehicles. Yet we see state after state as well as the feds weighing in on the rush to make electronic devices illegal or unusable while driving.
Look, it is all about the revenue these laws and regulations generate from the tickets they issue. It has very little to do with safety. If it had something to do with safety they would stiffen the law that covers distracted driving (reckless driving) more and leave the reason for the reckless driving out of it.
In my home state of West Virginia this year they just passed a law making use of a cell phone illegal while driving. That isn't the part that shows it is about revenue. The revenue generator is it was made a primary offense with a stiff fine attached to it. Meanwhile that law does very little for any other form of distracted driving.
A better way to "level the playing field" would be to eliminate the sales tax for the brick and mortar stores. That would also increase the chances of those living in border states coming to the brick and mortar stores to avoid the taxes in their states.
But no, they won't even consider that because it just may lower their revenue in the short term and we all know no politician thinks beyond the next election.
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No, in 2004 he had the help of Diebold, his brother in Florida and a whole bunch of new voter suppression laws.
You missed it... The biosphere that existed in the glacier didn't return when the glacier was gone. The same is true for the surface mine site. That glacier site may be OK by human standards in the same way that ocean level rise would be OK to aquatic animals but not OK to humans who require dry land to live on.
Things are not always black and white. To say that there is little or no effect on climate by humans is just as absurd as claiming humans are totally responsible for climate change. I work in emergency management and can attest through personal experience that the amount and severity of natural disaster has increased over the past decade alone. Hurricanes have become more frequent and tornado activity has increased. Flooding and mudslides are occurring more often as well especially in built up areas where runoff from all the paving has nowhere to go. To see massive changes in a biosphere all one has to do is visit a surface mine operation. Although they attempt to restore the biosphere somewhat it never fully returns to its original state.
No, a presumption would be that he lied when he said those things. It is more likely he thought the Republicans in Congress would, you know, actually CARE if the country goes down the tubes. He is now actually betting that people will remember that he tried to get along and play nice. The problem is the American public has the attention span of a retarded gnat.
Since this, like a lot of stories here at /. has gone political, let me weigh in...
President Obama's biggest mistake was trying to rescue the Republicans when they were at an all time low thinking he needed "bipartisanship" to get things passed. He had 3/4ths of the power (lacking only the Supreme Court) and he treated the opposition like they were equal partners. Like my dad always said, leave it to the Democrats to snatch defeat out of the jaws of victory. Instead of using the Tea Party lunacy like a knife twisting it in the belly of the beast, they allowed the Republicans to set not only the tone of the argument but the agenda as if they were still in power.
Anyway, to try and bring this back around, this attorney is just about as batty as any Tea Party Patriot. I guess it is a sign of the times.
The way I am reading how it works is that without it on programs won't run in Win8. If that is the case, then you would have to turn it on every time you went into Windows and turn it off when you switched OS. Am I wrong on that?
What I do see this doing is killing dual boot options. It would be a PITA to have to go into BIOS every time I wanted to switch to the other OS. I also see it killing other virtualization environments for the same reason. I.E. You possibly could run a virtualized Linux in Windows but the reverse wouldn't be true. I think that is the real thing MS wants to destroy. The ability to virtualize their OS.
Well, enough of this tinfoil hat stuff. We will see what they come out and how much hot water they get into with antitrust first.
It goes to the war on drugs. It started out as an anti-bootleg law and morphed into that. It has further morphed to the report goes to DHS as well because of terrorism funding. This is how they catch large money laundering operations.
No but to play devil's advocate here it is far more likely they would lob one at Israel. When that happens, because of treaties we have with them (lots of Jewish folk here to push it through), we would be at war with whoever did attack Israel. It's the same situation with North and South Korea.
Naming conventions aside, petition campaigns, especially form petition types have never worked in the past. They require the receiving party to actually give a shit about the petitions and set aside their own self interest and those of the ones funding them. Blackouts and demonstrations of the proposed nasty are far more effective. And it needs to be the big boys doing it first. That would be Google, Facebook, Twitter and Wikipedia. that is what stopped SOPA. Not some silly form sent to individual representatives. It prompted Joe Blow to actually call and write DIRECTLY to their reps expressing in their own words how they feel. That is way more effective than getting the same form over and over again. And even then, there will be politicians that won't set aside that self interest.
Exactly. The point is both parties are an evil duopoly that are allowed to fester with decisions like Citizen's United. A politician these days spends many more hours raising funds than they spend doing their Constitutionally mandated job. I know many that have taken the attitude of "if I never heard of you you get my vote!" that is why here in West Virginia a convicted felon in a Texas prison garnered 48% of the Democratic vote. That and the fact that not one of our Democratic leaders in Congress or the Governor himself, also a Democrat, supports President Obama. But that has more to do with coal and the EPA than anything else.
Anyway, coming from a state that is controlled for the past 35 years by Democrats has lead to some of the most egregious criminal acts. Just the past election has one county where 125% of the population cast votes. Lots going to prison over that. Suffice it to say that both parties are rotten especially if they are incumbents.
That's what you get for thinking..
The only facetime that counts are the ones with greenbacks behind them. All others need not apply...
Ummm.... No. China was, and is, doing the same to the solar panel industry that it did to the steel industry. It is massively dumping solar panels on the country at highly reduced rates because they are subsidized by the Chinese government at a far greater rate than the US is subsidizing the industry here.
Make no mistake about it. There is nothing the US government can do about Chinese dumping or Chinese manipulation of their currency because China holds so much of our debt. Armageddon is coming soon when the Chinese economy falters and the Chinese government calls in those loans. This is another reason the US needs to do something drastic to reduce its debt that China holds. But as long as there remains manipulation by the Chinese government, we will never crawl out of that hole.
And when the shooter turns out to be the judge's brother that is OK with you? That is what this case is sounding like. When you have financial interests in the outcome and refuse to recuse yourself from the case, it leads to the appearance of corruptness which is something we can't have in the judicial system. There are strict judicial guidelines (at least in the US) mandating judicial behavior. If a judge can't follow them, they need to feel the full weight of the law.
You got it backwards there sport...Less accidents=less payouts=GREATER profit margins. Insurance has NEVER existed to pay out more than it takes in. That is why they raise your premiums with the first claim.
And I don't see them reducing the premiums unless they gather a mountain of evidence showing it really is safer. I doubt we will see that in our lifetimes.
Until they got hacked then it is mayhem with no way around it.
I'd go further than just software patents. Ban all method patents. That includes business methods, which is in just as bad a shape as software patents are.
Which is exactly why they are so broad that anyone can do it simply by breathing.
Or are they just not changing the defaults set by the social networking site? I know plenty of Luddites that don't understand or care about their privacy until it is too late.
See, I don't want to be limited in minutes for voice or text. Data I can do without (although I noticed that when I send say a picture to someone it uses the data connection to do it). I can't imagine anything more dire than running out of minutes right when I need the phone.
Also, I live in rural West Virginia where sunshine has to be pumped in and even then we don't know what to do with it. We have whole counties where cell phones don't work at all. Hell, in some counties radios don't work either. So far AT&T has been the most reliable here for me working in places where other carriers drop the ball.
The problem with that analysis is it doesn't take into account the hit to reputation. These companies only exist because of trust that the data is correct and secure. Loss of that trust means people will jump ship faster than rats leaving a sinking ship. I suspect the only reason Heartland survived was it is an industry that is "too big to fail" meaning there are very few processors out there for people to jump ship to that hasn't suffered the same problems or worse.
I recently had a heart attack and realized I needed a phone for emergencies.I went with the GoPhone which is AT&T. I pay $50.00 a month for unlimited voice, text and data but rarely use the data. Before the attack I didn't see the need for a cell phone much less a smart one. I still don't have a smart phone and probably won't get one but I will say my use of the cell has accelerated somewhat. The phone itself is a Nokia C3-00 which is more phone than I really need. I just don't see the use of having all that trash in a phone.
Come down off your high horse there for a moment and think about this. There are times when recordings of police action can put lives at risk. Think about the under cover cop busting a gang up. Record him doing his job and releasing that recording would put not only the cop at risk but anyone around him. His family, friends and coworkers would quickly become targets.
Look, I am not saying what these police did is right but I am also not going to condemn the whole force or the policy they are following in limited cases. The fault lies in their training and supervision. A lack of either will result in instances like this.
Lastly, it was the city attorney and police chief that decided this case had merit enough to pursue it all the way to the appeals court. That was a foolish mistake that the Mayor and city government is ultimately responsible for. Want to punish someone, punish them.
I always find it amazing that electronic gadgets are a "distraction" yet non-electronic ones are not. You don't see legislation to outlaw paper maps, coffee cups, makeup, food, etc from vehicles. Yet we see state after state as well as the feds weighing in on the rush to make electronic devices illegal or unusable while driving.
Look, it is all about the revenue these laws and regulations generate from the tickets they issue. It has very little to do with safety. If it had something to do with safety they would stiffen the law that covers distracted driving (reckless driving) more and leave the reason for the reckless driving out of it.
In my home state of West Virginia this year they just passed a law making use of a cell phone illegal while driving. That isn't the part that shows it is about revenue. The revenue generator is it was made a primary offense with a stiff fine attached to it. Meanwhile that law does very little for any other form of distracted driving.
A better way to "level the playing field" would be to eliminate the sales tax for the brick and mortar stores. That would also increase the chances of those living in border states coming to the brick and mortar stores to avoid the taxes in their states.
But no, they won't even consider that because it just may lower their revenue in the short term and we all know no politician thinks beyond the next election.